PROBOLINGGO, Indonesia - Thirteen-year-old Siti Maryam says she suffers headaches and nausea after harvesting tobacco leaves with her bare hands during four years of working on her family's farm in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thirty-five House Democrats are urging the Obama administration to prohibit children from working on tobacco farms, citing concerns about ill health effects. The lawmakers, led by ...

LAFAYETTE, Tenn. – Like his big brother before him, Gabino Luna crossed the Mexican border illegally at age 16 and made his way to rural Macon County because he heard there was work to be found in ...

Children as young as seven are legally working on U.S. tobacco farms, and the practice is, not surprisingly, harming their the health. In a 138-page report titled "Tobacco's Hidden Children," ...

After more than four centuries of ubiquity and profits, North Carolina’s tobacco production bottomed out in 2020 to a level not seen in nearly 100 years. Now, the state is down to about 1,300 tobacco ...

Advocates who study migrant farm worker families estimate that as many as a half million of children currently work in the fields of America picking our food. And some of them are doing more than that ...

This stunning property in Connecticut is, in part, the product of winning advice from the late Zaha Hadid. Alan Barry A sprawling 1700s tobacco farm is listed for $9.5 million after a major makeover — ...

In the U.S., children under the age of 18 are legally barred from purchasing cigarettes or other tobacco products. But they are allowed to harvest tobacco on farms. Despite a worldwide decline in ...

INDIAN MOUND, Tenn. (WTVF) — Bobby Darnell isn't sure what he's going to do. Last week, all of his farm equipment stood idle, sans the fertilizer truck getting stuck in the mud. The amount of rain ...

LITITZ, Pa. -- The straw-hatted farmer and a helper deftly cut away stalks of the light-green tobacco so they fell neatly in a row, ready to be speared onto drying racks. "Without tobacco, I wouldn't ...

Tobacco farming in the U.S., mainly concentrated in North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee, in order of production, is on the decline due to changing habits, overseas competition and other ...